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12 Knowledge of the narrative of high politics is not in itself sufficient to explain how the Cerdicings extended their power across Britain, but a general grasp of the succession of kings (depicted in the genealogical diagram in Fig. 1) and the sequence of major events is a prerequisite for an attempt at such an understanding. This requires us to consider the various texts that are traditionally known by the collective (if misleading) name ‘the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle’, on which any narrative account of the period has to rely heavily.

6 (p. 54). 36 ASC D 1065. See also ASC C 1065; De obsessione Dunelmi, ed. T. 5, ed. and trans. D. Greenway (Oxford, 1996), p. 18. S 1067, 1160 give slightly earlier references to Yorkshire. 37 Abels, Alfred, pp. 169–257 is a fairly conventional survey, but on the texts commonly ascribed to Alfred see now M. ’, Medium Ævum, 76 (2007), pp. 1–23. 38 Keynes, ‘King Alfred and the Mercians’, pp. 12–45; Charles-Edwards, Wales, pp. 490–1. 42 Following the apparent stability that had lasted for most of the period since 878, Alfred faced a renewed threat in 892, when a viking army crossed from the Continent and landed in Kent: it ranged widely for the next four years, ravaging not only along the south coast but also as far as Chester and north Wales.